Saturday, February 25, 2023

Fascination 着迷

"Fascination" is a popular waltz song with music (1904) by Fermo Dante Marchetti and lyrics (1905) by Maurice de Féraudy.^[1]^[2]

It was first published in Hamburg (Anton J. Benjamin) and Paris (Édition F. D. Marchetti) in 1904 in a version for piano solo ('Valse Tzigane'). As a song with de Féraudy's words, it was first performed by the French music-hall singer Paulette Darty, in 1905, and published the same year.

With its English lyrics, by Dick Manning, "Fascination" was recorded by diverse artists including: Dick Jacobs, Nat King Cole and David Carroll, all of whose versions made the charts. wiki

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Long Lost Memories 被遺忘的時光

被遺忘的時光

是誰在敲打我窗是誰在撩動琴絃那一段被遺忘的時光漸漸地回升出我心坎

是誰在敲打我窗是誰在撩動琴絃記憶中那歡樂的情景慢慢地浮現在我的腦海

那緩緩飄落的小雨不停地打在我窗只有那沉默不語的我不時地回想過去

是誰在敲打我窗是誰在撩動琴絃記憶中那歡樂的情景慢慢地浮現在我的腦海

Friday, February 17, 2023

南太平洋之戀 South Pacific

South Pacific is a musical composed by Richard Rodgers, with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II and book by Hammerstein and Joshua Logan. The work premiered in 1949 on Broadway and was an immediate hit, running for 1,925 performances. The plot is based on James A. Michener's Pulitzer Prize–winning 1947 book Tales of the South Pacific and combines elements of several of those stories. Rodgers and Hammerstein believed they could write a musical based on Michener's work that would be financially successful and, at the same time, send a strong progressive message on racism.

Sunday, February 12, 2023

Love Is A Many Splendored Thing 生死戀

Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing is a 1955 Deluxe color American drama-romance film in CinemaScope. Set in 1949–50 in Hong Kong, it tells the story of a married, but separated, American reporter Mark Elliot (played by William Holden), who falls in love with a Eurasian doctor originally from China, Han Suyin (played by Jennifer Jones), only to encounter prejudice from her family and from Hong Kong society.

如果你還知道有韓素音 Han Suyin 這個名字的，可能會是對文學、電影甚至翻譯都感興趣的了。在文革時期，曾對當時的領導人有露骨的吹捧，因此受到官方的特別禮待。此外，上一代香港人，對韓素音還有印象的，可能是她以香港為故事背景的自傳式作品 A Many-Splendored Thing 1952，後來拍成了電影，Love Is A Many-Splendored Thing 1955，當然是在香港取景，在重拾香港在上個世紀50年代的景象之餘，那首同名的主題曲，更是令人產生出對老香港有難以忘懷的浪漫情誼。